Actor Glenn Ford

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[babysinister]

I remember that I too included that great photo of Ford (who passed away not to long ago - he was over 90) in another forum featuring famous pipesmokers some years ago. I read in a bio essay on the actor that he picked up the pipe from his father, who worked for the Canadian railroad system. Note the British influence in the stem-down positioning of the pipes on the rack. He was a fine gentleman and an underrated actor. I particularly liked him in Gilda, The Big Heat and a spate of cowboy movies that he made in the 1950s, including the original version of 3:10 To Yuma.

 

[Airborne]

I remember that I too included that great photo of Ford (who passed away not to long ago - he was over 90) in another forum featuring famous pipesmokers some years ago. I read in a bio essay on the actor that he picked up the pipe from his father, who worked for the Canadian railroad system. Note the British influence in the stem-down positioning of the pipes on the rack. He was a fine gentleman and an underrated actor. I particularly liked him in Gilda, The Big Heat and a spate of cowboy movies that he made in the 1950s, including the original version of 3:10 To Yuma.

Yes, you're right! I had forgotten that he was in 3:10 to Yuma, a great movie made from a great story by the great writer, Elmore Leonard. Gilda was fantastic, too! The French also tended to the stem-down position. Including a picture of the Belgian writer, Georges Simenon.

 

[babysinister]

I'm a big fan of Simenon's Maigret series. That still photo of S with his pipes is from a documentary interview from French TV that can be found somehwere online. In it he shows the interviewer how he fills and lights his pipe "une ceremonie". Hint: he didn't have much use for a tamper or the "three step" fill method. Lol.

 

[sstodvictory]

"Blackboard Jungle" is in my backlog of purchased but unwatched DVSs. I bought it to an example of Vic Morrow's acting talent, beyond the "Combat" TV series. I'll have to watch that one next.

Steve

 

[Airborne]

I'm a big fan of Simenon's Maigret series. That still photo of S with his pipes is from a documentary interview from French TV that can be found somehwere online. In it he shows the interviewer how he fills and lights his pipe "une ceremonie". Hint: he didn't have much use for a tamper or the "three step" fill method. Lol.

I'll have to do a search for that interview. I hope there's an English translation because my French is rather pathetic. Thanks much.

 

[Airborne]

"Blackboard Jungle" is in my backlog of purchased but unwatched DVSs. I bought it to an example of Vic Morrow's acting talent, beyond the "Combat" TV series. I'll have to watch that one next.

Steve

Yeah, you gotta watch it. Besides Glenn Ford and Vic Morrow, Sidney Poitier had a major part in it. MASH's Jamie Farr as well.

 

[babysinister]

I'm a big fan of Simenon's Maigret series. That still photo of S with his pipes is from a documentary interview from French TV that can be found somehwere online. In it he shows the interviewer how he fills and lights his pipe "une ceremonie". Hint: he didn't have much use for a tamper or the "three step" fill method. Lol.

I'll have to do a search for that interview. I hope there's an English translation because my French is rather pathetic. Thanks much.

http://archives.tsr.ch/player/simenon-pipe


Sorry, no English translation. But it almost doesn't need one.

 

[Doc Manhattan]

Neat!

If you pause in a few spots as he handles the tin, you can see he's packing his pipe with Dunhill Royal Yacht.

 

[Airborne]

I'm a big fan of Simenon's Maigret series. That still photo of S with his pipes is from a documentary interview from French TV that can be found somehwere online. In it he shows the interviewer how he fills and lights his pipe "une ceremonie". Hint: he didn't have much use for a tamper or the "three step" fill method. Lol.

I'll have to do a search for that interview. I hope there's an English translation because my French is rather pathetic. Thanks much.

http://archives.tsr.ch/player/simenon-pipe


Sorry, no English translation. But it almost doesn't need one.

Thanks much for the link. I enjoyed watching it. My wife is at a workshop in LA, but when she returns, I'll have to have her translate it for me. Wow, GS really stuffs that pipe of his!!!

 

[babysinister]

Neat!

If you pause in a few spots as he handles the tin, you can see he's packing his pipe with Dunhill Royal Yacht.

I posted the link to that video clip years ago (can't remember at which forum) and, iirc, at one point he says how many pipefuls he smoked per chapter when writing one of his books. I think it added up to 60 pipefuls per book. And he wrote hundreds of them, as he was incredibly prolific. In that old thread, one of the posters said that the tin looked like Dunhill Elizabethan. Lol - I don't know how you guys can hazard a guess, I certainly couldn't tell.

 

[babysinister]

May Glenn Ford in Heaven forgive me for continuing to perpetrate this threadjacking on my part, but just wanted to add that the poem quoted by the interviewer as the intro to the clip is "La Pipe d'un auteur" ("A writer's pipe"), by the great French poet Charles Baudelaire, one of the first acknowledgements in literature of the link between writing and pipesmoking.

 

[Airborne]

Neat!

If you pause in a few spots as he handles the tin, you can see he's packing his pipe with Dunhill Royal Yacht.

I posted the link to that video clip years ago (can't remember at which forum) and, iirc, at one point he says how many pipefuls he smoked per chapter when writing one of his books. I think it added up to 60 pipefuls per book. And he wrote hundreds of them, as he was incredibly prolific. In that old thread, one of the posters said that the tin looked like Dunhill Elizabethan. Lol - I don't know how you guys can hazard a guess, I certainly couldn't tell.

To the right of the video on the link, there is a paragragh written in French. My French is really bad, but I did manage to understand that he smoked between 6 & 8 bowls full per chapter. Thanks again for the link.

 

[Doc Manhattan]

Here are the bases of my guess:

"nhill"

"Yacht"

But my eyes may indeed deceive me--they've never been good.

 

[Airborne]

Here are the bases of my guess:



But my eyes may indeed deceive me--they've never been good.

Yes, by God, I think you nailed it, Doc!!! Way to go.

 

[babysinister]

Here are the bases of my guess:

"nhill"

"Yacht"

But my eyes may indeed deceive me--they've never been good.

But they're better than mine that's for sure! Lol, Inspector Maigret would have been pleased!

 

[12toneman]

Yes, you're right! I had forgotten that he was in 3:10 to Yuma, a great movie made from a great story by the great writer, Elmore Leonard. Gilda was fantastic, too! The French also tended to the stem-down position. Including a picture of the Belgian writer, Georges Simenon.

Big Simenon fan here too. I made my pipe rack after his:

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[Airborne]

Big Simenon fan here too. I made my pipe rack after his:

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Very good. Super!

 

[12toneman]

Here are the bases of my guess:

"Yacht"

But my eyes may indeed deceive me--they've never been good.

I've only seen pics of him smoking Royal Yacht...except this one (below)...we see three tins: Royal Yacht, and two of Four Square.

 

[RDPipes]

Glenn Ford- Fastest Gun Alive-1956